Mango Street

I loved that the end she realizes that even though she thinks she doesn't belong here it is a home. The red house is where she began to tell her stories. You find this out in the last chapter when she says "I like to tell stories. I tell them inside my head...I put it down on paper and then the ghost does not ache so much. I write it down and Mango says goodbye sometimes..She sets me free" (109-110). I felt a connection with her as I read this because I do the same thing. Ever since I was little I wanted to get out of the town I was from so I wrote stories of awesome far away places. It wasn't until I went to college I realized that I never wanted to leave. Esperanza has had one dream her whole life: to have a place of her own and now that she is getting older the dream is soon going to be reality.

Have you ever wanted something so bad that when you do you finally obtain it you have a feeling of bitter sweetness?